4-1. In your face.

Tuesday 9

Martha and I didn't have class today, whereas Kim had her World War II class. I just relaxed all day until 5:30pm, since at 6:00 we had our meeting at FIE with Prof. Pohlman and Prof. Amen. We had updates on events and the schedules, basically. Kind of a touch-base session.

The rest of the evening we spent it planning out trips outside of London... I MUST go to Dover and Canterbury at least. Kim is pressing for Wales. Other than that we roughly planned for France, Italy for mid-semester break, Ireland, Spain, Poland and Greece. We still need to look at it thoroughly, but we have a start on prices and flights.

So far, we have kept up with going up the stairs twice a day. I'm proud, though my knees do protest a lot.

Wednesday 10

I woke up early at 5:30am to go have a run on Hyde Park. I wanted at first to run to the Big Ben and back, but changed my mind in the end. I'm glad I did. My knees are not ready to be forced through concrete yet. I was also glad because I had a most wonderful view; I only regret not having taken the camera to capture it: the sun was just coming out from the Round Pond, touching the sky with beautiful shades of gold and pink. It later dawned me what that meant: there would be sun that day. Ugh. At the time, though, it was perfect. I ran and walked around the nearby portion of the park, gawked at the swans (I still love them) and marveled at how many others were also running. I topped off the session with running up the dorm's stairs. It felt... kind of good (no, dad -nor mum- you are not allowed to say "I told you so").

Afterwards I went to my morning class with Prof Amen -yay sports!- and it seems that it was a good idea to have brought 'Fever Pitch', since it's one of the recommended readings. So thanks. The other recommended book is 'How soccer explains the world'. Go figure lol.


We went back to Metrogate and I just passed out. Slept through the afternoon and evening until 7:30pm. This is why I don't like working out in the mornings. Drains me out entirely... some people get pumped up with it. I just die all day lol. Just as well, because I was getting all depressed that the sun was fully out hahaha XD

We had decided to meet at Gloucester Arms to watch the Croatia vs England game (4-1 England yay!!!), but we didn't get in time to secure a table, so some of us went with Prof Amen to eat some Indian food. The wait was a pain, but my dish was soooooooo good. I had Lamb Chop Tandoory and sweet Lassi (tastes just like the yogurt drink mum used to make). Loved it...it was my first time eating lamb, or at least doing so consciously, so it was a good choice... though it was such a small portion I wanted to cry when I finished it off lol. We went back to the pub and watched the second half (Theo Theo Theo!!!!!). It was awesome. I had a small glass of ale and a Foster's lager (tasted like Corona, really XD), but I ran out of money T___T oh well. I also have to note that 5/6 of the guys in the pub were OMGHOT!!!!. If not hot, then cute. Only a couple of plain or non-attractive guys. I'm not even kidding. Totally kicked Tequisquiapan's butt on ratio of cute guys, and that's saying a lot.

No pictures for this day, I'm afraid... But I'm willing to go back to the pub, just to demonstrate the level of hotness there... I don't care if I have to camp out XD